The Right Words: when you need them most

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You cannot be everyone's cup of tea, but you can be someone's first sip of a cold drink on a sunny day. This collection of poetry from Donna Ashworth will stay with me for many years to come. It is moving, kind, empathetic and so insightful; there are pieces here for almost every eventuality and type of grief. It is soothing, human and compassionate, and yet somehow aids that progression through the darker days of grief.

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people who like themselves as they are don’t judge they don’t look for flaws neither do they filter your words for signs of weakness they have learned to stop all that they accept themselves naturally and so they accept you too just as you are” Today I’m reviewing a poetry collection by Donna Ashworth. Three books Love, Life and Loss. I’ve been dipping in and out of these for the last week and I have to say I’ve loved them all. Love is full of words to remind us of the love in our lives, where it can be found, that it is powerful and so so important. Life covers just that, beginnings, endings, age, all sorts really and it’s been wonderful to sit at the end of the day and read one of these, they bring a sense of peace on the hamster wheel that is Life. Loss was a harder read for me and I have not yet read all of this collection. There are poems for loss in all its forms, I have particularly found solace in ‘There will always be loss’, simple words that speak loud and at the right time are always good.

Follow the flawed, the real, the messy. Follow the women who say it like it is, no filter, no glossing, no bull. Follow those people who accept themselves, and you, as you are. And leave the rest to edit their lives to perfection,” A short but uplifting funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about saying goodbye to a loved one. Tell the teenagersThat this will not go on forever, that very very soon, their life will begin again and it will begin in glorious technicolour. Tell the teenagersThat they are not being left behind, that all the other young people are waiting too, this stress is collective. Tell the teenagersThat night is darkest before dawn,

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If you are organising a funeral service some of these are ideal to be read at those. As I said earlier in my review my mum recently died and we chose a poem my daughter remembered from school called Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden. There were many in this book that I could and would have had. I had to take multiple breaks just so I could read through my tears! It was so heartbreakingly beautiful that I just have no words! I’m a big fan of women who snort when they laugh.Women who overshare awkward truths when the conversation stalls.I’m a big believer in singing loudly in the car whenever possibleand I love pulling alongside a fellow diva doing the same.I’m a big fan of women who love women,who spot toilet paper on the shoes and This episode was a joy to make. Donna reads six of her poems for us, tugging at our heart strings as we go. She shares the astonishing fact that her artistry is not the product of endless tweaks and revisions. Her poems arrive overnight, fully-formed for delivery in the morning, her first drafts her final drafts. You can have a friend, one single friend, whose support is so fierce, so fabulously fierce, that you feel like there is an army behind you.”Donna's words are just so wonderful. I find myself reaching for a Donna book most days and I dip in and out. Donna has an incredible talent for capturing moments and moods through her words. Thoughtful, uplifting and inspiring." Scottish writer Donna Ashworth translates our thoughts and feelings about life, love and loss into poetry that stuns in its simple complexity.